What do you do when you already know it’s fire and it’ll burn you without mercy? But you also know the burning will take some time. That there’ ll first be the sweetest sensation ever; with fingers fanned with cool breeze and heart bleeding ice-cream and balloons… And maybe, just maybe, the fire will never […]
Month: February 2018
This “if you are” nonsense
A man is seen at the gate, screaming and crying at the top of his lungs. ‘I must see the king’, he repeats. The guards, with confused lines across their brows ask him ‘why’ to which he mutters something about it being a life or death matter. Sooner than expected, word gets to the king […]
I thought I was a lesbian (Anonymous)
Victory’s note: HelIo people. Here is another episode of #BeingReal where real people share real struggles and how they overcame. Read to the end, share and be blessed. I prefer to be anonymous. During my university days, I went to collect some academic materials from a course mate and after copying them unto my pen […]
One Request
‘Father Lord, bless me’ ‘Be specific, you have 20 seconds to ask the Lord for one thing’, the voice announces ‘Lord, give me a car’, you ask, whilst picturing yourself cruising with the family, swerving to the left and right, blasting some cool music on the highway…of course, a smile is on your face. This is […]
Option 1 or 2
‘Nah I must be hearing evil voices, kadadadayamase. I bind and cast into the bottomless pit every demon on assignment to truncate my destiny. Oya be destroyed, roast by the anointing. Pack and go! Melt! Be shattered by the rock of ages’. A man is seen pacing back and forth a room devoid of sunlight […]
Sex was like “good morning”
My name is Raphael O. and a pervert is a perfect description of who I was in my high school and early university days. Fornication was my best food and sex was like ‘good-morning’ greetings to me. I was so promiscuous that I wouldn’t mind having a fling with friends and even sisters. Unfortunately, I […]
Nnamdi
The normal Nnamdi would have closed his eyes and sang along to the song on the radio but he still had not gotten over what happened moments ago. He shifted to the window looking gaunt and rather out of place in the vacant bus. It was not as if someone had died or anything like that, […]
Indelible mark
Rotimi stared at her lips. He silently thanked God that his spittle had not gone any further by a mini-inch. It would have entered her mouth. Her stoic expression made it impossible to determine if she had noticed. Why on earth wouldn’t she? If she had, and was pretending not to have, she was doing […]
Indelible Mark
Rotimi stared at her lips. He silently thanked God that his spittle had not gone any further by a mini-inch. It would have entered her mouth. Her stoic expression made it impossible to determine if she had noticed. Why on earth wouldn’t she? If she had, and was pretending not to have, she was doing […]
My name is Nkem
My name is Nkem and I am angry. Upset. Mad. Infuriated. Don’t ask me why. Please. Don’t ask me. If I tell you, you would judge me and it is not worth it. But you are insisting, so… I am here, sitting through worship, wondering why on earth he did not show up. I have dressed […]
